Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This challenge was issued by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Associate Director of the Harvard B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. He was thinking specifically of the mass of "non-committed" undergraduates who call themselves Jews because of Jewish birth, but who identify with neither their Judaic heritage, nor active religion...
...Rabbi Gold was somewhat disturbed by this "flirtation with commitment." "I do not favor the lack of earnestness indicated by casually picking and choosing ideas rather than determined searching." This searching--academic wanderings among new and different philosophies--is not eschewed by traditional Judaism, in fact, the pursuit of knowledge is revered as in perhaps no other religion...
Died. Charles Alien Ward, 72, two-fisted Minnesota advertising executive (president of St. Paul's Brown & Bige-low); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An adventurer in his youth. Ward roamed the waterfronts in China, prospected for gold in Alaska, ended up in Leavenworth in 1919 on a narcotics conviction. His cellmate turned out to be H. H. Bigelow. then the penny-pinching president of Brown & Bigelow, in prison for income tax evasion. After both were freed, Bigelow offered Ward a job. helped him rise through the ranks of Brown & Bigelow. Ward took over the company...
...Gold Braid & Hoop Skirts. Author Basso. 54. is dealing with the same fictional South Carolina town that framed his 1954 bestseller. The View from Pompey's Head, which told of present-day passions in the Tidewater South. The events of this new book are laid a century earlier but. despite the gold braid uniforms and the hoop skirts, the idiom is racily contemporary (says high-born Arabella of a suitor: "All he wanted was a chance to get under my skirts...
...what other academic private eyes have reported on the behavior of Americans, the modern world's most relentlessly observed and observing people. None of it is new; some of it is highly intriguing; and all of it is dedicated to the dubious proposition that such "status symbols" as gold-plated bathroom fixtures and air-conditioned doghouses threaten the American dream...